Joanna Booker is entering her second year as an assistant western coach for the Auburn Tigers.

Last season, Booker helped to bring the National Championship to Auburn and led the western team to the National Reserve Championship. In the regular season, she coached the western team to a 5-3 record.

Booker graduated from Mississippi State University with a B.S. degree in Animal and Dairy Sciences in 2003 and a M.S. degree in Animal Physiology in 2005. Her thesis is the only in depth research available on kinematics of stock breed western pleasure horses.

Booker began showing competitively in the American Paint Horse Association in 1996 and focused on All Around events. In 1999 and 2000, she was the Youth 14-18 High Point winner for the Mississippi Paint Horse Club and placed in the Top 20 at the 1999 AJPHA World Show in Trail. After competing at the youth level, Booker progressed into collegiate riding, including an appearance in the 2003 Southern Equestrian Championship as a senior at MSU.

Booker spent two years as the MSU graduate teaching assistant for equine classes and labs as well as the assistant coach for the Equine Judging Team and a co-advisor for the Horseman[apos]s Association.

Booker will begin working on her Ph.D in biomechanics this spring.

Booker is the daughter of Richard and Beth Booker of Brandon, Miss. and has one brother, Richie.

Assistant western coach Joanna Booker (Auburn, 2005)
Education:(M.S in Animal Physiology, MSU 2005)
(B.S. in Animal and Dairy Sciences, MSU 2003)